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Workplace Efficiency: Think Consumer, Not Business Technology

Why use enterprise tools when consumer technology gives workers what they want, when they want it? Alvaro Oliveira, VP of Talent Operations at Toptal, explores the tools and processes that best allow companies to operate remotely and securely.

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Alvaro Oliveira

Alvaro Oliveira

Haptics in Healthcare: An Opportunity for Designers to Help Revolutionize Telemedicine

Telemedicine has exploded in recent years, expanding access to healthcare services. But it’s missing an indispensable element of medical care: touch. Enter haptic technology.

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Kiran Khan

Kiran Khan

How to Conduct Effective UX Research: A Guide

Effective user research doesn’t have to cost a fortune. There are many low-cost methods available, all of which will put a designer on the road to designing better products.

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Ivan Annikov

Ivan Annikov

A Guide to CloudKit: How to Sync User Data Across iOS Devices

Modern mobile application development requires a well thought-out plan for keeping user data in sync across various devices. This is a thorny problem with many gotchas and pitfalls, but users expect the feature and expect it to work well. For iOS and macOS, Apple provides a robust toolkit, called CloudKit API, which allows developers targeting Apple platforms to solve this synchronization problem.

In this article, Toptal Software Engineer Paul Young demonstrate how to use CloudKit to keep a user’s data in sync between multiple clients.

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Paul Young

Paul Young

Black Swans 3: How Challenges Lead to Breakthroughs

The world is reinventing itself after COVID-19. Through lessons from national economies, companies, and individuals, this piece presents critical considerations for helping our cities or countries and adapting our companies and careers.

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Erik Stettler

Erik Stettler

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How to Conduct Usability Testing in Six Steps

User testing is easy and inexpensive and will substantially improve product designs. The insights gained from observing how people use a digital product are well worth it, as outlined in this six-step process.

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Jan Roose

Jan Roose

How to Build an Effective Initial Deployment Pipeline

Do you run deployment scripts from your development machine, or find yourself referring to deployments by the day of the week they were deployed, instead of using version numbers? It’s time for a better solution.

In this article, Freelance Ruby Engineer and automation enthusiast Amin Shah Gilani walks you through his perfect deployment pipeline to use at the beginning of your project. With this CI/CD configuration, every push is tested, the master branch is deployed to staging servers with a fresh database dump from the production server, and versioned tags are deployed to production with backups and migrations running automatically.

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Amin Shah Gilani

Amin Shah Gilani

Getting the Most Out of Your PHP Log Files: A Practical Guide

Log files may very well be one of the most underestimated and underutilized tools at a developer’s disposal. Beyond their value for debugging, with a bit of creativity and forethought, logs files can be leveraged to serve as a valuable source of usage information and analytics. In this article, In this article, Toptal engineer Ilya Sanosyan provides a practical guide to maximizing the value we get from our logs.

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Ilya Sanosian

Ilya Sanosian

Rethinking User Interface Design for the TV Platform

Designing for television has become part of the continuum of devices that require a rethink of how we approach user interfaces and user experiences.

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Pascal Potvin

Pascal Potvin

The Power of Optionality, Part 2: Volatility to Opportunity with Distributed Teams

Optionality is critical as we confront economic dislocation due to COVID-19. Learn how to identify options, rapidly test hypotheses and prototypes, scale options, and create ongoing learning for your organization with the aid of remote, on-demand talent.

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Erik Stettler

Erik Stettler

Terraform vs. CloudFormation: Choosing the Right IaC Tool

Terraform and CloudFormation offer powerful but distinct paths to infrastructure as code. Explore their pros, cons, and when to choose each for AWS or multicloud deployments.

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Emiliano Angieri

Emiliano Angieri

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